After earning a 96% score for my 2021 legislative record, the League of Conservation voters has endorsed my re-election to Congress. Their support demonstrates our campaign's commitment to making environmental issues a top priority.
Addressing climate change must be a top priority. Decades of inaction has resulted in warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, and climate-caused disasters. Just last year, hundreds of people died during the Pacific Northwest's searing heat wave. We are living with the consequences of our nation's failure to address climate change. And we are setting up future generations to suffer the consequences of our own failure.
READ MOREYesterday, the Senate voted against the Women's Health Protection Act. The WHPA would protect abortion rights nationwide, no matter what the Supreme Court does.
Enshrined in the Roe v. Wade decision is not just the right to an abortion, but elemental concepts of privacy and bodily autonomy. An overturn of Roe v. Wade, as the leaked Supreme Court draft decision suggests is coming, would represent a terrible attack on our constitutional freedoms and the trampling of legal precedent, long-standing norms, and the will of the vast majority of Americans.
READ MORELast night's revelation of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is jarring and, if it stands, will be an outrageous attack on women across America.
In far too many states, automatic trigger laws will go into effect the moment Roe v. Wade is overturned. In those states, abortion will go from a legal practice to a criminalized act in an instant.
I stand with the millions of women who are about to lose their constitutional right to abortion.
READ MORERick Larsen represents Washington state's 2nd Congressional District. Rick was born and raised in Northwest Washington, and his family has called this region home for more than 100 years.
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